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We Can't Go On Meeting Like This

A Cognitive Theory of Literature? The Fall of the Wall between Linguistics and Theory of Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Frederik Stjernfelt
Frederik Stjernfelt
Affiliation:
Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Email: stjern@coco.ihi.ku.dk.
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Abstract

The article investigates the meeting between linguistics and literary theory under the auspices of cognitive grammar. First, it places this recent meeting in contrast to the relation between the two under structuralism; second, it sketches the philosophical foundations of cognitive linguistics in a series of related ideal types, such as cognitivism, diagrammatism, gestaltism, phenomenology, etc.; third, it investigates the literary theory of cognitive semantics in Lakoff and Turner's More Than Cool Reason as a background for some critical remarks.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 2: Special issue on COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS , December 1995 , pp. 121 - 136
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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